Demonstrators gather outside the Trump Hotel International in Washington on Sunday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order barring the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the United States.

I was horrified by President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry into the United States by people seeking asylum from seven majority-Muslim countries. America has a long and storied history as a country with open arms toward people seeking a place to live and thrive in relative peace and with the security that certain basic human rights, including the right to religious freedom, will be honored.

To deny anyone, even temporarily, the right to enter this country simply because that person is from a majority-Muslim country is akin to the quarantine of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Patricia O’Roark,Wheat Ridge

On Jan. 27, our new president signed an executive order barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days, and suspending the admission of all refugees for 120 days.

Currently, there is a plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, perhaps the most iconic symbol of what America was prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump. It reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

In light of our new president’s recent executive action, this plaque must immediately be removed. I suggest it be donated to the Smithsonian Institution for its historical significance.

Sad!

Mark Vanderbrook,Morrison

To those who are protesting President Donald Trump’s order temporarily prohibiting refugees from certain terrorist-infested countries, ask France, Germany, Belgium, the U.K. and Spain how allowing unfettered entrance to the European Union has worked out for them. Ask the victims and families of victims of terrorist attacks in those countries how they feel. Daesh (another name for the Islamic State) has stated that they would infiltrate refugee communities.

I don’t want the United States to become another country victimized by terrorists masquerading as refugees. We as a nation have every right to control who comes into our country. We are a nation of legal immigrants. We are not obligated to allow criminals, terrorists and drug traffickers to have unfettered access to our country.

President Trump is taking steps to protect the citizens of the united States, unlike the previous administration.

Thank you for your editorial criticizing Donald Trump’s unconstitutional actions barring refugees and others — all Muslims — from the U.S.A. Your editorial noted that some Republicans have joined Democrats like Sen. Michael Bennet in denouncing the ban and noted Sen. Cory Gardner’s initial criticism. Please continue to hold both senators accountable regarding using their full powers to block this ban. The Post endorsed both of them. Bennet and Gardner can and must use their senatorial powers to withhold consent on any new activity and filibuster and refuse to take action on anything until this ban is removed. If members of Congress refuse to rubber stamp this president’s unconstitutional actions immediately, we can begin to reclaim our democracy and U.S. values.

Pat Blumenthal, Denver

Please don’t include me in your blanket and idiotic apology to the world for the actions of President Donald Trump. He did not embarrass “himself, our nation or people of conscience across the globe” by ordering a 90-day — yes, it’s for three whole months– ban on immigrants from nations that have produced terrorists not afraid of anyone or anything.

Those who stand for the free-for-all immigration that led to terror attacks in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, are not thinking about the safety and security of our citizens.

Instead of being embarrassed, we should applaud a leader who is interested in fulfilling the No. 1 responsibility of the president of the United States: protecting its citizens. Be proud that he is not setting us up as sitting ducks to be picked off by the next Islamic State sympathizer who has been allowed into our country because we are a “nation of immigrants.”

Get a clue, America.

Donna Jorgenson Farrell,Broomfield

The Trump administration’s executive order announcing new immigration rules that restrict entrance into the United States of any one from seven countries in the Middle East (except for Christians) is an insult to all American citizens. Except for Native Americans, we are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, some forced and some willing. Our diversity in religion, race and national origins is at the root of what this country is, of who we are as a people. Donald Trump’s actions are a direct attack on who we are.

Our immigration heritage from the past 410 years underlies our Constitution and our democracy. By restricting Muslim immigrants from seven nations who have been vetted by a long, thorough process, Trump is undermining the foundations of our country. This may be a temporary restriction, or if Congress allows Trump to continue to usurp its power to legislate and to rule by edict, it may be expanded to other nations and other religions. Hopefully Congress will realize the danger to our country and act to reign in a president who seems not to understand and appreciate what America’s heritage is.

Joseph L. Browne,Denver

It’s hard to imagine anything more likely to radicalize Muslims both inside and outside this country than Donald Trump’s executive order to prevent the return to this country of green-card-holding permanent residents who were outside the country on the day he signed the order — just because they happened to be from one of the “bad seven” countries listed.

This ban also blocks entry for those with valid U.S.-issued visas. And what is more likely to incite hatred for the U.S. than statements that we will prioritize entry of Christians over Muslims? It appears that this president is incapable of thinking that goes more than one layer deep with respect to the logical consequences of his actions and statements.

I don’t know the best response for Americans to make to this chaos, but I do know that no action is the worst response. Americans, make some act of resistance!

Elizabeth Goebel,Thornton

The time is now for Sen. Cory Gardner to stand up for the best interests of Colorado and the country. In just 10 days, the Trump administration has shown an utter disregard for truth, democratic norms and values, and the separation of powers. With his weak response to the executive order on immigration, Gardner sounds like a politician who wants credit for opposing the ban without taking any political risk.

We are a nation of immigrants. Colorado has welcomed refugees from Sudan and other nations, and they have contributed to our communities. Sen. Gardner — we are looking to you to stand up for the rule of law and American values.

Diana Lane, Boulder

I immigrated to this country when I was 9 years old. It was 1987, the Cold War was ongoing and I came from a communist country. There were the same fears against against my family then as there are against people from Muslim-majority countries now. My family came on the exact type of work visas that are targeted in last Friday’s executive order. I was bullied mercilessly for being a “commie” (which I wasn’t). But while people were not always kind to my family, the government and President Ronald Reagan welcomed us. Not only did they not turn us away, but they treated us with great respect.

Thirty years later, I’m a patriotic American, wife, mother, lawyer, and productive member of society. I want to know what the lawmakers who espouse the principles of Reagan (Sen. Cory Gardner, Rep. Mike Coffman) will do about this.

I guess the CEOs who do not care for Trump’s temporary immigration ban don’t care for America nor care of it to be protected against radical Islam and terrorist attacks. Do you remember San Bernardino or the Florida massacres?

Dan Reuter,Broomfield

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